Ridley5 opened this issue on Oct 09, 2008 · 9 posts
Ridley5 posted Thu, 09 October 2008 at 11:20 AM
I generated about a dozen AVI clips at 1600 x 1050. Does anyone know a good program (free or otherwise) that will let me combine/edit them and output at the same resolution? Movie Maker 2 seems to only output at 640 X 480. I read horror stories about Pinnacle Studio, but nothing official yet on Adobe Premiere CS4 for professional level editors. Anyone using CS3 ? I'm running Vista 32.
operaguy posted Thu, 09 October 2008 at 11:25 AM
i run the full adobe suite, level CS2. So far I have not had to use Premier; I do everything I need in After Effects.
AE should be able to open your clips, you can put them on the timeline, apply filters and transitions, insert text/titles, then output the entire thing.
Now, I output to apple's H.264 but AE can output to other codex.
How much post-processing do you have to do, over and above just stringing the clips together?
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shuy posted Thu, 09 October 2008 at 11:40 AM
I heard very good opinion about Jahshaka.
I tried to make some clips with this editor but interface knock me down. Anyway it is freeware, probably powerful tool.
http://jahshaka.org/
Good luck
Helgard posted Thu, 09 October 2008 at 12:03 PM
I use Premiere, and it does everything you want.
For a cheaper alternative, you could try Editstudio. I think there is a version of Editstudio that is free. The latest version costs $89. I used EditStudio professionally for many years, doing work for TV, so it is well capable.
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crocodilian posted Sat, 11 October 2008 at 2:58 PM
aaargh! don't render these things as AVI's!
Never ever, not even with zero compression.
Compression makes compositing a bear, because you'll never get a clean edge or alpha, and recompressing the composite will produce lots of artifacts.
When rendering Poser animations, save as numbered TIFs . . . Poser will save out a perfect alpha with each one.
Will make your life way easier.
On the PC, I use Discreet Combustion (an old version, which works just fine). Jahshaka seems very similar.
(BTW: love your "Corman's Comeback" image)
Ridley5 posted Sun, 12 October 2008 at 10:06 PM
Just re-rendered everything as TIFS and composited in Premiere. Works flawlessly. Thanks for that crocodilian and glad you liked the pic.
radstorm posted Mon, 13 October 2008 at 3:09 AM
You could also make them flash using MotionArtist :)
radstorm posted Mon, 13 October 2008 at 3:11 AM
Or this for avi http://www.bobyte.com/AviTricks/ it's free
radstorm posted Mon, 13 October 2008 at 3:18 AM
Oops my bad, it is not free anymore..used to be though.,.but it's about $20,, still cheap for a non linear editor. But look hard on the page,,the classic version is still free, but I think it is limited in features.. well of course it is..LOL